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Thursday, May 09, 2013

V-E day celebrations

It's been very hard for me to fight the jet lag this time, but I think I managed to be almost back on track now. Proof is that today yesterday I managed to go out and take photos! Hence this one that I took on the Champs Elysées today where they had several marches to commemorate the end of WWII. Tourists loved it! This band belongs to the Garde Républicaine which is the a part of the French Gendarmerie in charge of the security of Paris. Nice, but expensive... We just heard that it costs 280 million euros per year for only 3 000 men...

Great photo...too bad so many people today don't even know how WW2 even started, hell...they don't know how the Iraq war started. It is a very special day and it will be for me as long as I am alive! The Garde Républicaine is amazing...I used to love to watch them ride horseback through Paris...I haven't seen them do that since the early eighties though. Do they still ride those beautiful horses in their uniforms?? Pageantry!! Merci for the shot... ;)

well, 1) because I know2) in Scotland as elsewhere in the UK it is VE Day - Victory in Europe Day3) my birthday is on 8 May4) and my name is Veda (nothing to do with VE Day, in fact - I was named after my mother)